WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama's endorsement of gay marriage appears to have made Americans on both sides of the issue even more entrenched in their positions, firing up his young, liberal backers and intensifying opposition from Republicans and conservatives, according to a new poll....

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GOP boycotts health care advisory boardHouse and Senate Republican leaders told President Barack Obama Thursday that they will refuse to nominate candidates to serve on an advisory board that is to play a role in holding down Medicare costs under the new health care act. More

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Views shift little after Obama backs gay marriageWASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama's endorsement of gay marriage appears to have made Americans on both sides of the issue even more entrenched in their positions, firing up his young, liberal backers and intensifying opposition from Republicans ...06/22/2012 - 6:24 am | View Link

Poll: Views shift little after Obama backs gay marriageWASHINGTON (AP) – President Obama's endorsement of gay marriage appears to have made Americans on both sides of the issue even more entrenched in their positions, firing up his young, liberal backers and intensifying opposition from Republicans and ...06/22/2012 - 1:52 am | View Link

Views shift little after Obama backs gay marriageWASHINGTON — President Barack Obama's endorsement of gay marriage did little to shift the nation's views on the subject, with a new poll finding that the public remains evenly split on the issue. Even so, an Associated Press-GfK survey released Friday ...06/21/2012 - 9:42 pm | View Link

Views Shift Little After Obama Backs Gay MarriagePresident Barack Obama's endorsement of gay marriage has done little to shift the nation's views on the subject. A new Associated Press-GfK poll finds that the public remains evenly split on the issue but that Obama's core supporters are fired up - at ...06/21/2012 - 1:00 pm | View Link

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Anthony Kaminski and Alice Narloch were married in a civil ceremony Nov. 23, 1966, in Detroit, Mich. Settling in St. Louis, they celebrated with a Catholic ceremony at St. Stanislaus Kostka Polish Church. After serving four years in the U. S.…

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● Demographics: Pew's landmark study from a year ago that looked at the changing composition of the middle class over the decades has become an interesting lens through which we can look at the 2016 presidential election. Pew's definition of middle class was "between two-thirds of and twice the national median size-adjusted household income," and, despite the conventional wisdom that declines in the manufacturing sector were wreaking havoc in one-time manufacturing-centered communities, the metro areas with the largest percentage of residents still in the middle class leaned heavily toward those mid-sized Rust Belt cities.

Trevor Noah is confused at how Hillary Clinton can win more than 2.5 million more votes than Donald Trump and still lose the presidency, and if you support the Electoral College that allowed this to happen — as many Republicans do after Trump's win — Noah makes some good points that are maybe more obvious to someone approaching the U.